On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, S.Toms wrote: st> I noticed something weird, I've installed and reinstalled a few times st> now (from scratch) and I noticed that alot of the objects in the /dev st> directory have me as the owner when I always thought they should be owned st> by root. st> Am I forgetting something? I know I didn't go in there and change st> anything, I've still been customizing and installing things, so I havn't st> had a chance to do anything in there. Here's an example of the drives st> (removable). st> st> skull@daydream:~ > l /dev/hdd /dev/hdc /dev/fd0 st> brw------- 1 skull users 22, 64 May 21 05:21 /dev/hdd st> brw------- 1 skull users 22, 0 May 21 05:21 /dev/hdc st> brw------- 1 skull users 2, 0 May 21 05:21 /dev/fd0 st> skull@daydream:~ > ssh -l nitz daydream st> nitz@daydream's password: st> Have a lot of fun... st> nitz@daydream:~ > l /dev/hdd /dev/hdc /dev/fd0 st> brw------- 1 skull users 22, 64 May 21 05:21 /dev/hdd st> brw------- 1 skull users 22, 0 May 21 05:21 /dev/hdc st> brw------- 1 skull users 2, 0 May 21 05:21 /dev/fd0 st> nitz@daydream:~ > st> st> I tried with a second user thinking maybe it changed per user but st> obviously that wasn't the case. st> Ok, after looging onto KDE (or maybe just X) with a different user all together, I notcied that they take the ownership of the current user to some extent. I say to some extent because today it shows the following: skull@daydream:~ > l /dev/hdc /dev/hdd /dev/fd0 brw------- 1 skull users 2, 0 May 21 05:21 /dev/fd0 brw------- 1 skull users 22, 0 May 21 05:21 /dev/hdc brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 64 May 21 05:21 /dev/hdd where drive hdd (my dvd drive) is now staying as root only. What file makes this change, maybe I need to tell it that hdd is an actual drive since yast only seems to want to take one drive under the add additional hardware section. st> -- S.Toms - smotrs@mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v7.2+ - Kernel 2.4.4 Bugs, pl. n.: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.